js13kGames 2022 Kick-off and Awards Ceremony
This year's js13kGames opening and closing online meetups, Kick-off and Awards Ceremony respectively, after a few years of being led by Sascha Depold from eBay, were hosted by me personally.
2022
Monster's master thesis
I'm always excited to see my gamedev related Open Source work being used by others - the most recent case is Monster Wants Candy demo (a base for the tutorial) helping with a master thesis about cognitive processes!
Meet.js Summit 2022
Meet.js Summit is the very first conference I gave talk at, all the way back in 2012, so a decade later I was quite happy to be able to join the 2022 edition as a speaker again.
W3C Games CG September 2022: Open Web Games Directory
A few days ago, on Tuesday September 6th, the W3C Games Community Group gathered to talk about the Open Web Games Directory we've discussed in the past during some of the previous meetups and TPAC sessions.
Grid - nostalgia framed to the last detail
We've been offered Grid Studio frames as physical prizes in the js13kGames competition, and I was lucky enough to get two frames for myself - a Game Boy console and an XBox One controller.
Andersen's Front-end Hero meetup in Cracow
I was invited to give a talk at the Andersen's office in Cracow during the Front-end Hero meetup on July 14th, where I talked about building games in 13 kilobytes.
W3C Games CG July 2022: Cocos Creator
July's W3C Games Community Group meetup was organized around Huabin Ling who gave a talk Advancing web gaming to new heights with Cocos showcasing capabilities of Cocos Creator.
JSNation 2022 in Amsterdam
I was part of the JS Gamedev Summit conference's Program Committee, which was held purely virtual at the beginning of April, so when the JSNation conference (from the same organizers, GitNation) was going to happen in a hybrid form on June 16th, I was invited to visit Amsterdam and participate in person, which I did.
Code Europe 2022 in Warsaw
After speaking at the Code Europe conference in 2016 about A-Frame and in 2017 about js13kGames, I decided to visit the Warsaw edition this year that happened June 2nd at the National Stadium as an attendee. Especially since Gamedev.js became the Community Partner of the event.
JS Gamedev Summit 2022
Last month, on April 7-8th 2022, the JS Gamedev Summit was held online - a conference focusing on web game development, something that rarely happened in the past years.
My Breakout in Eclipse
A few months ago Wim Jongman has opened an Issue in the GitHub repository of my Gamedev-Canvas-workshop, which is quite often forked and used as a base for hands-on workshops teaching basics of how to build HTML5 games, asking if it can be included as a Game example in Eclipse. Fast forward to now, and it's there already!
Gaming Guild during Kernel Block 5
The fourth edition of Kernel Gaming Guild (started with KB2) is history, but the good news are: you can catch up on all the recordings if you haven't followed them live.
W3C Games CG March 2022: Blockchain and NFTs
First W3C Games CG workshop entirely dedicated to blockchain and NFTs in web games happened online on Tuesday March 29th, and it was definitely the weirdest out of all our events so far.
Randlab meetup #1 and ConfrontJS 2022 conference
After two years of online presence I finally decided to start appearing at physical events again, and ended up attending a Randlab meetup and the ConfrontJS conference two days later.
OP Games' Dev Spotlight
I was invited to be the very first guest of the newly launched Dev Spotlight series of interviews with the developers having their games listed on the Arcadia platform created and run by the OP Games team.
W3C Games CG February 2022: Networking
This month's W3C Games Community Group meetup was joined by the Web and Network Interest Group to discuss the intersection between games and networking technologies.
GitHub Star status renewed
I'm happy to report that after being awarded the GitHub Star status last year, and going through the verification process at the beginning of 2022, I was renewed for the second year in the program.
Gaming in Web 3 and next generation monetization
I've participated in two online events in January: Web 3 Round Table by OP Games about gaming now versus gaming in Web 3, and W3C Web Games workshop about next generation monetization.